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* unannex, uninit: Avoid committing after every file is unannexed, for massive speedup. * --notify-finish switch will cause desktop notifications after each file upload/download/drop completes (using the dbus Desktop Notifications Specification) * --notify-start switch will show desktop notifications when each file upload/download starts. * webapp: Automatically install Nautilus integration scripts to get and drop files. * tahoe: Pass -d parameter before subcommand; putting it after the subcommand no longer works with tahoe-lafs version 1.10. (Thanks, Alberto Berti) * forget --drop-dead: Avoid removing the dead remote from the trust.log, so that if git remotes for it still exist anywhere, git annex info will still know it's dead and not show it. * git-annex-shell: Make configlist automatically initialize a remote git repository, as long as a git-annex branch has been pushed to it, to simplify setup of remote git repositories, including via gitolite. * add --include-dotfiles: New option, perhaps useful for backups. * Version 5.20140227 broke creation of glacier repositories, not including the datacenter and vault in their configuration. This bug is fixed, but glacier repositories set up with the broken version of git-annex need to have the datacenter and vault set in order to be usable. This can be done using git annex enableremote to add the missing settings. For details, see http://git-annex.branchable.com/bugs/problems_with_glacier/ * Added required content configuration. * assistant: Improve ssh authorized keys line generated in local pairing or for a remote ssh server to set environment variables in an alternative way that works with the non-POSIX fish shell, as well as POSIX shells. # imported from the archive
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username="http://joeyh.name/"
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subject="comment 8"
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date="2013-08-22T18:02:00Z"
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There are many use cases for a rsync special remote. You could use it as a backup. You could use it to archive files offline in a drive with encryption enabled so if the drive is stolen your data is not. You could `git annex move --to rsyncremote` large files when your local drive is getting full, and then `git annex move` the files back when free space is again available. You could have one repository copy files to a rsync remote, and then `git annex get` them on another repository, to transfer the files between computers that do not communicate directly. The git-annex assistant makes it easy to set up rsync remotes using this last scenario, which is referred to as a transfer repository, and arranges to drop files from the transfer repository once they have been transferred to all known clients.
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None of these use cases are particular to rsync remotes. Most special remotes can all be used in these and other ways. It largely doesn't matter for your use what underlying transport the special remote uses.
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